To:THE ORGANISING BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.)

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10. XII. 1919

Orgbureauof the C.C.

Inmy opinion, Frunze asks too much. We must first
capture the whole of the Ukraine, Turkestan can wait and
make the best of it for a
time.[1]

[1]Ina conversation by direct line with members of the Turkestan
Commission, Frunze said: “The refusal to send top-level
political workers is due to the big demands of the Southern Front and
the Ukraine.... By our efforts we have succeeded in getting... a
few people for both the political and the technical jobs.” =

(M. V. Frunze na frontakh grazhdanskoi voiny. Sbornik dokumentov,
Moscow, 1941, p. 259.)